Language:
English
Year of publication:
2007
Titel der Quelle:
Pro Memoria
Angaben zur Quelle:
27 (2007) 99-108
Keywords:
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Study and teaching
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
In 2005 a sample of 995 Polish high school students from various regions, who were about to visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, was polled by a research team from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, with the aim of examining the level of knowledge about Auschwitz among Polish students, as well as their perception of its symbolism. The study showed that since 2000, when a similar survey was held, there was a rise in the level of knowledge about Auschwitz among students, as well as in their understanding of the fact that it was the main site of the Nazi genocide. Antisemitism was expressed less in 2005 than in previous surveys conducted in 1992 and 2000. The increase in familiarity with the concept of the Holocaust and with the main facts Holocaust history can be explained by the media attention given to the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the camp, and by the influence of the educational system which had included topics of the Holocaust in the history curriculum.
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